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Index 



Opera company from Wan hsien, 



Ii6 

 Opium cultivation in Western 



provinces, 193 

 Opium smoking, 74, 194, 195, 212 

 Opossum Point, 34 

 Ornithology of Szechuan, 266 

 Otter fisheries at Ichang, 39 

 Otter's Cave rapid, 56, 289 

 Oxhead rapid, 67, 70, 292 

 Ox-liver, Horse-lungs Gorge, 59, 



60, 123, 260, 289 



Pa-chow, city of, 140 ; island of, 



32 

 Pagodas ; at Shasze, 27, 28 ; at 

 Fu-chow, 125 ; in Eastern 

 China, 71, 72 ; near the city of 

 Wan, 103 

 Pai ai Shan (White Cliff Moun- 

 tains), 41, 42 

 " Pai-Chien" (rocky ledge), 124 

 " Pai-Fang'' (triumphal arches), 



102, 128, 141 

 Pai-ti Cheng, old city of, 86 

 Pa ngai hsia (Gorge of the Eight 



Cliffs), loi, 102 

 Pao-Chao, General, 59 

 Pao-ning-fu, city of, 140; burned, 



277 

 Pastimes of the Chinese, 157 

 Patung, district city of, 71, 72, 



291 

 Peh-hsiang Kai, street in Chung- 

 king, 17s 

 Pei-lo (back-baskets), 236 

 Pei-shih, village of, 76 

 Pei tsz, baskets called, 119 

 Photographer, a, in Chung-king, 



2H, 212 

 Pien Ho, channel called, 24 

 Pierced Mountain Gorge, 58, 5 9 



Pillar of Heaven (limestone pin- 

 nacle), 54 

 " P'ing-fen " (grave-levelling law), 



145 

 Ping-shan, 242 

 " Ping - shu Pao-chien " hsia 



(Gorge of the Military Code), 



61, 62, 64, 290 

 Pliny, account of China, 250-252 

 Polo, Marco, on the " Great 



River Kian," 258 

 Ponies, Kwei-chow, 176-178, 196, 



197, 200 

 Popoff, Mr., estimate of the 



population of China, 11, 12 

 Poppy cultivation in Szechuan, 



118, 124, 193; at Wan hsien, 



104 

 Population of China, 11, 12 

 Porpoises, 34 

 Post couriers, 159 

 Poyang Lake, 257 

 Proclamation re the Earth-pulse, 



150-152 

 Pure Stream temple, 60 

 P'u-tan, place called, 20 



Railroad from Shanghai to Woo- 



sung, 248, 249 

 Railway construction in China, 



6, 7, 248 

 Red Sand Point, 103 

 Reeds in the Yang-tse River, 21, 



22 

 Religion of China, 145. See also 



F6ng-shui 

 Richthofen ; on Szechuan coal- 

 fields, 192, 250 ; and the red 



basin of Szechuan, 261 

 Roberts, Mr. P., 76 

 Roman Catholic missionaries in 



Chung-king, 165, 166, 172 



